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Gruel to be kind: a hardcore detox break in Austriahttps://www.theguardian.com/travel/2013/jan/12/austria-detox-clinic
Our writer checks into a detox clinic in Austria. A week later, she's lost only half a pound and been really bored – but she's truly sorry to leave<p>Things must have been bad. At my office, stuck in front of the computer, I started to fantasise about an old-fashioned sanatorium, where a kindly nurse in a starched uniform wheels you out in your Bath chair to snooze in the sun all day. I'd had enough of hi-tech, constant demands, and yearned for peace.</p><p>The closest I could find to this ideal was the Viva Mayr clinic in Austria. It is very much a medical clinic rather than a luxury spa: the staff wear white, there is no Wi-Fi, and its detox programme is not for the faint-hearted.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2013/jan/12/austria-detox-clinic">Continue reading...</a>Health and fitness holidaysRest and relaxationHealth & wellbeingDiets and dietingAustria holidaysSpa breaksTravelSat, 12 Jan 2013 07:01:11 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/travel/2013/jan/12/austria-detox-clinicPhotograph: Prokop-Ernst-Peter/PRViva Mayr lies beside Lake Worth in AustriaPhotograph: Prokop-Ernst-Peter/PRViva Mayr lies beside Lake Worth in AustriaHarriet Green2013-01-12T07:01:11ZAnna Pickard tries an Austrian Saddle and Spa breakhttps://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2008/jan/10/healthandwellbeing.austria
Anna Pickard rides a world-famous horse, gets pummelled by a Shaolin monk and learns when and when not to wear clothes - all in the space of one short break<p>In a posh spa hotel in the middle of an enormous snow-covered golf course, I am lying face down on a treatment table as a monk slaps the back of my thigh with an open hand. I am finding it quite difficult to swallow a giggle, when a head suddenly appears under the donut through which I am pushing my nose.</p><p>"You are OK?" asks the monk's translator in a rising falsetto, managing to inject eighteen syllables into the short phrase. "Mmm!" I say, nodding, and give the international thumbs-up sign of OK-ness. I hear him reassure the Shaolin master in Mandarin behind me, who commences his pummelling, and I, in turn, my giggling.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2008/jan/10/healthandwellbeing.austria">Continue reading...</a>Health & wellbeingLife and styleAustria holidaysShort breaksTravelSpa breaksHorse riding holidaysRest and relaxationSocietyThu, 10 Jan 2008 17:51:31 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2008/jan/10/healthandwellbeing.austriaAnna Pickard2008-01-10T17:51:31Z